High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Refuge (AH-11), was a hospital ship of the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was built in 1921 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., of Camden, New Jersey, as SS Blue Hen State, but was renamed SS President Madison in 1923 for service with American President Lines. Acquired by the Navy from the War Shipping Administration on 11 April 1942 for conversion to a troop transport, she was renamed USS Kenmore (AP-62), and commissioned at Baltimore, Maryland, on 5 August 1942, with Commander Myron T. Richardson in command.